November 4th 2004 Black and Decker finalized the purchase of the
Pentair Tools group.
This includes Porter Cable, Delta, Devilbis compressors and a few other
smaller companies.
Pentair sold their welding companies (Marquette, Century, and Solar) to
Lincoln Electric last year.

I am very worried about this.
B+D does not have a good track record of respecting quality
construction.
The Dewalt brand was created because they has destroyed the market
value of the Black+Decker name by making so many crappy tools.
Dewalt has gone completely plastic now.
Delta is mostly taiwanese junk now, but Porter Cable makes some nice
stuff and more importantly they own FLEX, maker of the finest right
angle grinders on earth.